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Create a RSS Feed From Any Site

Mar/25 in Online Apps

Is your favorite web site missing an RSS feed for you to subscribe to for updates?  Here is a handful of online applications that will help you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.  Create an RSS feed for any web page with these tools.

  • Feedity – Very simple to use, and no fuss web page to RSS conversions.
  • Feed43 – For tweakers, this is the tool for you.  Check out the tutorial to see all the customizations you can do.
  • Dapper – Easy to use tool for visually creating your own RSS feed from any site out there.
  • FeedMarklet – A no-fuss interface.  It won’t scrape content but makes it easy to add your own.
  • FeedYes – Automatically generated feeds for any page on the Web.
  • Page2RSS – It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.
  • Ponyfish – Simple web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.
  • FeedBeater – Just plug the web site URL in, and let the web site take care of the rest of the conversion.
  • FeedFire – This site will take virtually any web page and convert it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed.

Out of them all, I think FeedMarklet and Feedity probably have the easiest interface to get started with, and Feed43 has the most options to customize and tweak till you get things just the way you want them.  I would suggest giving them all a shot though, and see which one does to the best job for you, depending on the page you are trying to pull RSS information from.

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Make Your Own Super Hero

Jan/13 in Online Apps

Scottish TerrierPersonally, I am more of a fan of DC comics, however the Marvel web site does have a new cool toy I can play with.  What does it do?  It allows me to finally make the super hero of my dreams. Think of this as super powers and funny costumes meet digital paper dolls.

Here is one I just whipped up… 

What, you don’t fear the Scottish Terrier?!  Here are a few more “Make a Hero” online tools.

Hopefully, this will come in handy.  Never know when you might need a hero! *cue the music*

Oh Johnny 5, where are you when we need you the most?

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Make Your Own Flash Game with Fyrebug

Nov/19 in Online Apps

fyrebug_logo Fyrebug is a web site (new to me) that I have been playing with a lot lately.  The idea here is simple, create, play and share your own original games with the world.  There are several basic game “templates” to choose from – and you can fill in the blanks to create your own original masterpiece.

You can check out the creator here:  http://www.fyrebug.com/create/

On this page you can select what type of game you wish to create, and then edit each feature as you see fit.  You have shoot ‘em ups, arcade clones, word search, action games, fighting games and more.    Once you are done creating you can play or share you game with others.  Take for example, this game where I am a bouncing Harrison Ford head.


Click here to make your own Fyrebug game

This is one of those web sites that is fun to spend some time with when there is nothing else to do.  Therefor, I put it in my time wasting hall of fame – right next to Friv.

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10 More Paint.NET Tutorials

Oct/29 in Desktop Apps, Popular Posts

As I learn to use Paint.NET more and more, I seem to be running across even more great tutorials to share with all of you.  Last time around, I covered the 10 best Paint.NET tutorials – and this time I have 10 more for you to enjoy.  Which is your favorite?

Wormholes

Exploding planets

Draw in Three Dimensions

Poker Set – Playing Cards & Chips

How to Make a Glass Cube

GEMSTONE V2 !

Blowing Bubbles

Spacescape tutorials

Make a “Wave” with Paint.NET

How To Make iPod Ads – Rewrite, with images!

Paint.NET continues to be an inspiration for my creativity.  The more tutorials I find, the more things I want to try out myself – or tweak to fit my own needs.

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Need a Quick Tiled Background?

Jul/14 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

Need some tiled bliss to lay on the background of your own recent web creation?  BgPatterns.com is the background generator that you want to use.  Not only does it have dozens of designs to pick from, you can also set the color, size of the design, and also the level that it is rotated at.

Quick Tiled Background

I promise you, once you get started you will see this is just more fun to figure out if you play with it some… change your colors up, and try to get as creative as you can.  Want to see an example of the end result?  I used the first background I made on my Twitter profile.

Mitch on Twitter

Snazzy right?  Check it out and make your own at BgPatterns.com.

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Create Your Own Super Mario Tune!

Jul/03 in Desktop Apps

ss1This is one of those programs you just happen to stumble upon but you know you have to at least give it a shot.  Mario Paint Composer allows you to create your own Nintendo inspired tune using the old SNES Mario Paint-ish layout.  Even if you don’t have a musical skill in your entire body, it is fun just to drag and drop things onto the board and then hit play.

It is both Mac and Windows friendly too.  Just download, unzip and you’ll be off on your own music creating adventure.  Here is an example video I found via the ‘ol YouTube:

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Create an eBook with Open Office

Apr/28 in Desktop, Writing Advice

First off, thank you for the positive feedback on the latest eBook release of mine I told you about a few days ago. Always appreciate the feedback and thoughts on the project. One question I have gotten a lot thus far is, what did I use to create it? Well, as many of you know I pride myself on being a low budget guy… so why pay money when I can get this done for free? I created the entire eBook using Open Office and this video I found on YouTube for pointers.

Who says this Internet thing isn’t a great learning device? This made it easy to pick up pointers on how to link inside of the document, and then how to export to PDF and secure the document up some so that it could not be edited. I would suggest anybody bookmark this video and play it again if you ever want to get into the basics of digital publishing yourself.

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Make a Mobile Device Ready Web Site!

Apr/16 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

With the rise of cellphones, iPhones and every other type of phone phone out there (feel like I am stuck in a bad rendition of “Old McDonald Had a Farm..”) you need a site that is ready to please even your mobile audiences. That is where Wirenode comes into play. They will build you your mobile web site in 5 minutes or less.

mobile-phone-sites

If you have an RSS feed it is really easy to create a page. Sure you can add the pages, pictures and widgets – but scrapping your feed makes web site creation even easier. See this page I made as an example:

http://mitch.wirenode.mobi/

So if your looking to reach out into a new market for your publishing needs, might want to give wirenode.com a visit.

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Writing Slowdown

Dec/21 in Personal

Now running out of things to do, just running out of the energy to do them with.

I am not sure if it is because of the holidays, end of the year rush or just being a little burnt out. No matter what the reason might be, I just have not been up to writing as much as I usually do this week.

I have been taking it a little lighter in hopes that once the new year (or after Christmas rush) rolls by I will be back to my old content creating self. So if you notice a slowdown in any of my normal stomping ground – don’t be worried! I am just feeling the end of the year blues like the rest of you.

This might be a good time for me to reorganize my own way of doing things. I really need to go through my documents and find a better way of saving old articles and keeping payment records. Perhaps I should just backup and burn my docs to a DVD and start fresh on January 1st?

For any content creators in the house, how to you cope with this lack of energy to create something new? I would love to hear any suggestions from any and all who have them.

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Podcasting on the Cheap

Dec/09 in Desktop Apps, Web Hosting

small-servers.jpgWant to know how I put together the Web Hosting Show podcast? I recently wrote up a podcasting guide for the Lunartics blog – and thought I would share it here as well. I am a big believer in not having to pay much to get your projects up and going.

Now as you can tell from the About Our BlogSTARS! Web page, I am no stranger to the art of podcasting. In fact, in February I will be celebrating my two year anniversary of creating them for the public. Now one question that I get sent my way a lot is how do I do it?

+ Check Out my Low Budget Podcasting Guide on Lunartics!

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